This is the sort of performance I've been waiting for. It looked like they would bleed out, but the defense got a couple huge stops when it mattered and the offense finished the job.
The key here is Alabama might have found a physicality that they've lacked. The running game struggled, yes, but Alabama didn't abandon it (remarkably balanced in attempts) and it was there when they needed it to finish the game. Hopefully that's something to build off of.
This didn't feel like last year, where Alabama needed late theatrics to finish off a team they'd been up big on. This was Alabama stepping up late in a game, in a fashion I haven't seen in a while.
Great job.